Individual Details

LIFE
A. She was born in 1805 on Oahu (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 346).
Conflict: Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 195 states birth year about 1807.
B. She was raised by aunts Peleuli and Kawelookalani. She was 14 when her father Kamehameha died. She became a mate of Liholiho when she was very young (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 346). Mate of Liholiho in 1819
(Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, p xvi).
C. She married "her cousin, Kahalaia, and had one son, but unfortunately both father and son died young" (Keoua: Father of Kings, p 31). After hearing of the death of Liholiho in 1824, "Luanu'u Kahala-i'a took under his protection Ka-lani-pauahi and Ka-ho'aon-ku Kina'u.... Within a few years, Pauahi became the wife of Keku-ana'oa, and Kina'u of Kahala-i'a.... Elizabeth Kina'u became the permanent wife of Ke-kuanao'a according to the binding form of Hawaiian marriage (ho'ao)" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 346-347).
Conflict: Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 195 indicates a marriage date with Mataio Kekuanaoa as September 19, 1827.
D. On 5 July 1832,"The Princess Kinau succeeded to the office of the Kuhina Nui upon the death of the Dowager Queen Kaahumanu II. She had been one of the wives of the Prince Iolani-Liholiho (King Kamehameha II) but had not children by him. She then joined with Matthew the Chief Kehuanaoa, a chieftain of inferior rank and station" (Descendants of Prince Keeaumoku I, Hms G65, Chart 8-A-2). She became a mate of Kamehameha II in 1842 (Williams, John Adams Cummins: Prince of Entertainers, p 154). She was premier 1832-1837 (Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, p xvi).
Conflict: She was named Premier by Kamehameha III in March, 1833 (Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People, p 212).
E. "Kina'u was a brave woman. She had not feared the threats of the French and British captains even when their fists were shaken [or brandishing their swords] in her face.... She had the courage of a man. Had she been one she would have been a second Kamehameha, to whom she bore a remarkable resemblance" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 330).
F. She was "induced by Ka'ahu-manu's good example to give up [drinking] and turn to the right and to the word of God" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 348).
G. Order of spouses and children. (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 347).
H. Fragment: She also had a child by Kahalaia (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 348).
I. "After the birth of her fourth son, Alexander, Kana'u wanted very much to have a daughter. Kana'u's niece Konia promised to give her child, who was named Bernice Pauahi, to Kina'u." She later gave birth to Kamamalu (Kwan, et al, Na Lani Kamehameha, p 17).
J. She died of mumps "in her thirty-fifth year" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 346,348). Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 331 states the death date as March 4, 1839, but April 4, 1839 on p 348.

Birth	1805	Oahu
Marriage	Oct 1827	Mataio Kekuanoa
Death	4 Apr 1839
Alt name		Kinau
Alt name		Kaahumanu
Alt name		Hinau
Alt name		Elizabeth Kinau
Alt name		Kalani AhumanuiKalikooiwi KauhipuaoKinau
Alt name		Kinau Kaahumanu

Spouse	Mataio Kekuanoa (1791 - 1868)
Child	David Kamehameha (1828 - 1835)
Child	Moses Kekuaiwa (1829 - 1848)
Child	Lot Kapuaiwa (1830 - 1872)
Child	Alexander Liholiho (1834 - 1863)
Child	Victoria Kamamalu (1838 - 1866)

Spouse

Liholiho (1797 - 1824)

Spouse

Kahalaia ( - 1826)

Father	Kamehameha I (1736 - 1819)
Mother	Kaheiheimalie (1778 - 1842)
Sibling	Kamamalu (1802 - 1824)
Sibling	Kamehameha Kapuaiwa (1801 - )
Sibling	Kekuaiwa (1803 - )
Sibling	Kamehameha Kakaa ( - )